"God didn't intend on music being boring, so we came to raise Hell." -Nikki Sixx

"Let's put it this way, it's hard at the top, but it's harder at the bottom. Our problem is, we have too much fun too fast, and sometimes it makes you crazy." - Nikki Sixx

" When I was ten, my mum bought me a snare drum. I've always been fascinated by drums--I felt nothing for any other instrument. Later I played a bit of acoustic guitar, but it was always drums, first and foremost. I don't reckon with that jack-of-all-trades thing."
"My dad had bought me my first drum kit the year before [1964]. It was almost prehistoric--most of the metal had rusted. Later I learned how to properly look after my drums. People who don't care for their drums really annoy me."-John Bonham

"There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'."-Kurt Cobain on his lyrics

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."-Kurt Cobain

"Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules get too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion" - Slash

FROM: "CURE MY TRAGEDY"
"IF YOU CAN MAKE THE WORLD A STAGE FOR ME, THEN I HOPE YOU CAN HEAR ME SCREAM" - SCOOTER WARD/COLD